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JP Flores
Education
PhD Candidate, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
2025 - 2021
- Graduate Certificate in Innovation for the Public Good
- Advisor: Doug Phanstiel
BA, Cellular & Molecular Biology (Public Health Minor)
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA
2021 - 2017
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Phanstiel Lab (UNC-CH School of Medicine)
Chapel Hill, NC
2025 - 2022
- Using computational and wet-lab techniques to investigate the role of 3D chromatin structure in response to environmental stress
- Developing a user interface for the R/Bioconductor data visualization package, plotgardener
Undergraduate Researcher
Schulz Lab (Occidental College Department of Biology)
Los Angeles, CA
2021 - 2017
- Utilize techniques such as DNA isolation, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and HPLC to find medical relevance of venom
- Conduct fieldwork in Kauai to study and capture venomous cone snails
Awards & Accolades
Graduate
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2025 - 2021
Undergraduate
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2021 - 2017
Features & Interviews
Graduate
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2025 - 2021
- California private colleges fear affirmative action ban as Supreme Court prepares to rule (2023)
- Writing About Race in Biological Science (2023)
- 18 Young Scientists to Watch (2023)
- Three Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (2022)
- John Patrick Flores’21: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) (2022)
Undergraduate
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2021 - 2017
- New biology course explores the COVID-19 pandemic in real time (2020)
- Meet JP Flores - Occidental Baseball (2020)
- S2, Episode 1 - Off the Bench featuring Antonio Andrade and JP Flores (2020)
- OxSEA seeks to clean the ocean and educate LA’s youth (2019)
- Staying for the summer: Undergraduate Research Center provides students and faculty with summer research opportunities (2019)
Teaching Experience
I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.
Promoting Inclusivity in the Research Environment
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2024
BCB 723 Statistical Genetics & Genomics
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2023
How to Learn to Code
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2023
WinSpire Dancing with Data!
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2023
WinSpire Digging Deeper
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2023
BIO 268 Biostatistics
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2021
Training & Certifications
Effective Mentoring Training
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2022
- Foundation for developing competencies and skills in effective communication, aligning expectations, assessing progress and understanding, addressing equity and inclusion, fostering independence, cultivating ethical behavior, and being able to articulate a mentoring philosophy to others.
Publications
Advance U.S. international diplomacy efforts by expanding eligibility in the Embassy Science Fellows Program
Journal of Science Policy and Governance
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- Authored with Rami Major and Rachel Cherney